Georgia Institute of Technology VIP Program

North Ave NW
Atlanta, Georgia 30332, United States
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Georgia Institute of Technology

North Ave NW
Atlanta, Georgia 30332
United States
Latitude: 33.775618
Longitude: -84.396285

The Institution

Georgia Institute of Technology is committed to improving the human condition through advanced science and technology. With more than 100 centers focused on interdisciplinary research, Georgia Tech consistently contributes vital research and innovation to American government, industry, and business. Georgia Tech provides a focused, technologically based education to both undergraduate and graduate students.

The Program

The VIP Program at Georgia Tech builds upon multidisciplinary and vertically integrated teams. The site has achieved high team longevity through the integration of VIP teams into instructors’ research, with teams making meaningful contributions to instructors’ research efforts. Program-level initiatives include retrospective analysis of peer evaluations to understand team dynamics, and to identify patterns across the program and areas for improvement; and development, documentation and dissemination of faculty professional development tools, workshops and resources. Georgia Tech spearheaded the establishment of the VIP Consortium, with the ultimate goal of transforming undergraduate education. As the lead organization, Georgia Tech seeks to continue expanding the consortium, to establish the organization as an independent body with active engagement between member institutions, and to cultivate a community of collaboration. As contributing members, Georgia Tech has developed the consortium webpage, is working to disseminate peer-evaluation tools, developing professional development tools, workshops and resources, and developing an online sharing portal for Consortium members.

Directors

Ed Coyle

Coordinators

Julie Sonnenberg-Klein
Chris Malbrue

VIP Teams

  • Automotive LIDAR
    To develop an automotive LiDAR system in support of the emerging technical area of vehicle autonomy and increased safety.
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  • Brain Trauma Assessment Protocols
    To build a suite of mobile applications for iOS and Android devices that will be used to administer and collect data from individuals who have suffered brain traumas with lingering effects (e.g., stroke leading to Aphasia, Alzheimer’s, etc.).  The apps will be based on established protocols of clinical assessment including (but not limited to) the Western Aphasia Battery (WAB), Aphasia...
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  • EcoCAR

    To stimulate the development of advanced vehicle technologies that reduce the overall impact of transportation on the environment by designing, building, and refining an alternative fuel and connected/autonomous vehicle that reduces energy consumption, greenhouse gas emissions, and criteria tailpipe emissions while maintaining consumer acceptability, utility, and safety.

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  • Engineering for Smart Cities
    To develop a campus-wide visualization, feedback and analytics platform to better understand and to systematically improve campus resource management.
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  • GT Off-Road
    To design, build, defend and race a high-performance off-road vehicle in the annual SAE BAJA competition.
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  • Health Informatics On FHIR
    To develop, evaluate and deploy health applications that can help doctors take care of their patients and patients do their part.
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  • Humor Genome
    To build an Internet repository of humor, broadly interpreted. Items which are considered funny by various groups would be tracked via social networking integration. The resulting “big” data would be available for analytics, which, in particular, could include research that will help better understand, and perhaps even quantify humor. Possible crowd sourcing of jokes or computer generated humor.
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  • Intelligent Transportation Systems
    Improve the transportation systems to, within, and from Georgia Tech.
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  • IoT in Health

    Internet of things (IOT) has the potential to revolutionize the healthcare industry. Thus far, most IOT applications focus on improving monitoring and physiological sensing of healthcare and patient care, however, the next generation of healthcare technologies will focus on multiplexed points of care testing, diagnostics, and treatment. The goal of this course is to engage students to...

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  • RoboSense
    To develop robotic boats as sensing platforms for environmental monitoring tasks such as oil spill survey and cleaning, and metal objects in the sediments. To develop autonomy solutions for maritime mobile sensing networks.
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  • Stadium-IoPT
    Create an Internet of People and Things within Bobby Dodd stadium to enhance the game-day experiences and safety of 55,000 Georgia Tech football fans. This IoPT is a distributed system that includes: sensor networks/systems for gathering and processing information from the game, fans, and the stadium itself; making this information available over 4/5G, WiFi and other wireless systems to fans...
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Methods and Technologies

Majors